The twelve edition of the Festival was held under the patronage and thanks to significant financial support of the Ministry of Culture, City Council of Łódz, Marshall of Łódz Voivodeship and with the financial support of European Community program - MEDIA DESK. Their involvement was a necessary condition for a successful organisation of our event. Furthermore, we are very grateful to everyone who supported the Festival in terms of finance and organisation.

Our great thanks go to:

THE GENERAL SPONSOR: ATLAS
MAIN INDUSTRY SPONSOR: KODAK ENTERTAINMENT IMAGING
MAIN OFFICIAL SPOSNORS: POCZTA POLAND, ARRI, TVP2, TRIAS
INDUSTRY SPONSORS: PANAVISION, PANTHER, SACHTLER, COLOR BY DELUXE, AVID, OPUS FILM, TECHNICOLOR, DIGITAL LAB, SYNCHRO LAB, MOVIE TECH, APPLE, ZEISS, KINOFLO, SYNCHRO LAB
SPOSNORS AND PARTNERS: AMERICAN AIRLINES, ACT COMPUTERS, AGENCJA NOWA, ATOS, BRITISH COUNCIL, CARDCO, CITYGOLD, EURO AWK, FIRMA PETECKI, FLEXI, HEXELINE, HOTEL CENTRUM, INDESIT, LUX- MAT, ŁÓDZKI ZAKŁAD ENERGETYCZNY, MANUFAKTURA, MEDIA MARKT, MPK ŁÓDZ, RESTAURACJA BRACI ZIELIŃSKICH, SAMSUNG, SPEDIMEX, TAXI 6400400, TOYOTA AMX-ŁÓDZ, TV5, UNIQA, WIMAL INTERNATIONAL, WINOTEKA, VARITEX, ZESPÓŁ ELEKROCIEPŁOWNI IN ŁÓDZ

as well as to all media patrons whose involvement helped us to organise the best edition of the festival of all. Thanks to them information concerning our guests and events were provided to you immediately: RZECZPOSPOLITA, TVP2, RADIO ESKA, RADIO GOLD FM, KINO, STOPKLATKA, FILM & TV KAMERA, FILM & TV KAMERAMANN, THE WARSAW VOICE, GAZETA STUDENCKA, SEMESTR, PRZEKRÓJ.

We would like to thank also all the distributors, producers, societies, film schools, volunteers, friends and individual supporters, without whom the festival would be deprived of its essential value.

THANK YOU!!!

With great pleasure we announce the events that took place during this edition of Camerimage (guests marked by bold font were present at this year festival).

This year, in the Competition we presented 12 films. They were judged by the international JURY consisting of:

Vilmos Zsigmond, Jury President, and
Renato Berta,
Laszlo Kovacs,
Svein Krøvel,
Oliver Stapleton,
prof. Jerzy Wozniak.

The following films were presented in the Competition:

Alexander
Director: Oliver Stone
Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto
Country: UK, Germany, Netherlands

Chorists
Director: Christopher Barratier
Cinematographers: Dominique Gentil, Carlo Varini
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany

Edukators
Director: Hans Weingartner
Cinematographer: Daniela Knapp, Matthias Schellenberg
Country: Germany, Austria

Great Water, The
Director: Ivo Trajkov
Cinematographer: Suki Medenčević
Country: Macedonia, Czech Republic, Slovakia

Hazan
Director: Sho Igarashi
Cinematographer: Akiko Ashizawa
Country: Japan

Ninth Day
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Cinematographer: Tomas Erhart
Country: Germany, Luxembourg

Sea Inside, The
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Cinematographer: Javier Aguirresarobe
Country: Spain

Reconstruction
Director: Christoffer Boe
Cinematographer: Manuel Alberto Claro
Country: Denmark

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Director: Kim Ki-Duk
Cinematographer: Baek Dong-Hyeon
Country: South Korea, Germany

Turtles Can Fly
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Cinematographer: Amir Assadi
Country: Iran, Irak

Vera Drake
Director: Mike Leigh
Cinematographer: Dick Pope
Country: UK, France, New Zealand

Zatoichi
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Cinematographer: Katsumi Yanagijima
Country: Japan






During the Festival our great and unique audience had a chance to see other examples of cinematographers' work. The Festival Centre as well as Polonia Cinema where the places where many Special Presentations were screened:

Anxiety
Director: Manoel De Oliveira
Cinematographer: Renato Berta
Country: Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland

Carandiru
Director: Hector Babenco
Cinematographer: Walter Carvalho
Country: Brazil, Argentina

Birch Wood, The
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cinematographer: Zygmunt Samosiuk
Country: Poland

Cider House Rules
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cinematographer: Oliver Stapleton
Country: USA

Downfall, The
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cinematographer: Rainer Klausmann
Country: Germany

Dreaming Of Julia
Director: Juan Gerard
Cinematographer: Kramer Morgenthau
Country: USA, Germany

Enduring Love
Director: Roger Michell
Cinematographer: Haris Zambarloukos
Country: UK

Generation C.K.O.D.
Director and Cinematographer: Piotr Szczepaniak
Country: Poland

Genesis
Directors: Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
Cinematographers: Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou, Patrice Aubertel, William Lubtchansky, Cyril Tricot
Country: France

Holy Lola
Director: Bernard Tavernier
Cinematographer: Alain Choquart
Country: France

Honey Baby
Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Cinematographer: Timo Salminen
Country: Finland

House of Flying Daggers
Director: Yimou Zhang
Cinematographer: Ziaoding Zhao
Country: China, Hong Kong

Mickybo and Me
Director: Terry Loane
Cinematographer: Roman Osin
Country: North Ireland

Miracle of Bern, The
Director: Sönke Wortmann
Cinematographer: Tom Fährmann
Country: Germany

My Step Brother Frankenstein
Director: Valeri Todorovsky
Cinematographer: Sergey Mikhalchuk
Country: Russia

Paradigma
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Cinematographer: Sławomir Idziak
Country: France, Germany, Italy

Producing Adults
Director: Aleksi Salmenperä
Cinematographer: Tuomo Hutri
Country: Finland, Sweden

Shall We Dance?
Director: Peter Chelsom
Cinematographer: John De Borman
Country: USA

Sideways
Director: Alexander Payne
Cinematographer: Phedon Papamichael
Country: USA





Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
Director: Peter Sellars
Cinematographer: David Watkin
Country: USA

Devils, The
Director: Ken Russell
Cinematographer: David Watkin
Country: UK

Knack, The
Director: Richard Lester
Cinematographer: David Watkin
Country: UK

Six Sided Triangle
Director: Chris Miles
Cinematographer: David Watkin
Country: UK

Charge of the Light Brigade, The
Director: Tony Richardson
Cinematographer: David Watkin
Country: UK





Drifting Clouds
Country: Finland

I Hired a Contract Killer
Country: Finland, UK, Germany

Juha
Country: Finland

Man Without The Past, The
Country: Finland

Tatjana
Country: Finland





Aberdeen
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Cinematographer: Philip Øgaard
Country: Norway, UK, Sweden

Dragonflies
Director: Marius Holst
Cinematographer: John Christian Rosenlund
Country: Norway

Elling
Director: Petter Noss
Cinematographer: Svein Krøvel
Country: Norway

Music for Weddings and Funerals
Director: Unni Straume
Cinematographer: Harald Gunnar Paalgard
Country: Norway

Only Clouds Move the Stars
Director: Torun Lian
Cinematographer: Svein Krøvel
Country: Norway

Passing Darkness
Director: Knut Erik Jensen
Cinematographer: Svein Krøvel
Country: Norway, Germany, France

Prozak Nation
Director: Erik Skjoldberjaerg
Cinematographer: Erling Thurmann-Andersen
Country: USA, Germany

You Really Got Me
Cinematographer: Pĺl Sletaune
Director: Kjell Vassdal
Country: Norway





Flamenco Women
Director: Mike Figgis
Cinematographers: Mike Figgis, Adam Suschitsky
Country: UK

Red, White and Blues
Director: Mike Figgis
Country: USA






During the 12 edition of Camerimage Festival the audience had a chance to see over 50 feature films. One of the integral parts of the Festival is also a Student Films Festival. This year we presented 46 etudes chose from over 150 entries. 24 films were presented in the Competition and 22 in World Panorama. The Competition was judged by:

Michael Chapman, Jury President
Javier Aguirresarobe,
Alain Choquart,
Pierre Lhomme,
Michael Neubauer,
Billy Williams.

In the Competition we presented:

Airstream (Germany),
At the Railroad Crossing (Poland),
The Body of Mine (Poland),
The Brother (Australia),
Day Like Other Days (Poland),
An Eye for an Eye (Germany),
The Happiness Thief (UK),
His Girlfriend (Poland),
I Don't Know (Poland),
The Invisible Woman (Germany),
Lilith (Poland),
Loose Contact (Switzerland),
Manege (Poland),
Marty (USA),
The Natural Route (Spain),
The Next (Spain),
Pre Mortem (India),
Sugar Lumps (Spain),
Tin Man (Mexico),
Trail of Shadow (Poland),
Visions (Poland),
Winter (Poland),
Woman From the Dark (Poland),
You Are There (Poland).

In the World Panorama we presented:

Abimes (France),
Affection (Poland),
Annaottoanna (Germany),
Between Us (UK),
Black Berries (Australia),
At the Lake (Poland),
Escape! (Germany),
Eva (Poland),
The Fifth Season (Poland),
The First Vampire (USA),
Forever Hold Your Peace (Spain),
Hi Maya (Switzerland),
Night in a Hotel (Slovakia),
Pilou (France),
Rain is Falling (Germany),
Dancer (Poland),
Seventy-Seven Below (USA),
Small People (Poland),
Tuesday (Germany),
The Virus (Hungary),
Wednesday Afternoon (USA).

The Festival is not consisting of the film presentations only. During the Festival the guests are able to take part in many meetings with the films creators. There are press conferences, workshops, seminars and other accompanying events.






On Sunday, November 28th Moritz Laube and Christel Jaekel led editing workshops in Lodz Film School. Working with Wim Wenders (Land of Planty) was led by Moritz Laube and Christel Jaekel presented DNA Technology and Avid Adrenaline.

Thanks to PANAVISION, Michael Chapman led the workshops in Opus Film Studio. Using PANAVISION equipment and some lighting equipment he presented his amazing cinematography background.

On Thursday, December 1st, Rodrigo Prieto led workshops for students using the lighting and camera equipment from ARRI.

Furthermore, thanks to ARRI and AVID and with the help and support of Sławomir Idziak, the students had a chance to take part in a totally new workshops. During the firsts days of the Festival students were shooting small scenes and during the second part of the Festival they were editing. All of these activities took place in the Festival Centre and the Festival audience had a chance not only to see it but also take part in it. The results were shown during the Closing Ceremony.


During this year Festival students had also a chance to take part in many seminars led by famous cinematographers and directors. The seminars were led by: Manoel De Oliveira, David Watkin, Dick Pope, Krzysztof Zanussi, Sławomir Idziak, Oliver Stapleton, Mike Figgis, Pierre Lhomme, Andrzej Żuławski, Chris Doyle, Rodrigo Prietro, Oliver Stone czy Phedon Papamichael.






The New State of the Art for Cine Lenses - ARRI and ZEISS
ARRICAM system - ARRI presentation
SACHTLER presentation
LICHT TECHNIK presentation
KODAK Look Management System and Invite Daylight In - KODAK presentation

Some of presentations took place in the conference room and some of them on the stands. At this year Festival the new Award was introduced - Technical Award in the field of production and postproduction. The Jury consisting of Jost Vacano, Andrzej Jaroszewicz and Suki Medenčević was judging the inventory and necessity of particular solution to the production and postproduction aims.

Media Desk Poland organised a presentation called: How to start getting Media Plus funds? Development, production, distribution - the opportunities of European Union Programme.






During this Festival the lowest level of the Festival Centre belonged entirely to Mike Figgis. MIKE FIGGIS LEVEL included the exhibition 150 photos specially arranged in this area. Furthermore, the audience saw a special installation where 2 projectors and 9 plasma screens were used. It was one of the most attractives events during Camerimage.

Another exhibition in the Festival Centre was called Witold Gombrowicz Vence - Chiavarai 1965 - 1968. There were photos taken by Bohdan Paczowski and presenting Witold Gombrowicza. The exhibition was accompanied by screenings of two films I Gombrowicz directed by Andrzej Wolski and shot by Piotr Jaxa as well as Rozdarcie, czyli Gombro w Berlinie directed by Wiesław Saniewski and shot by Romuald Liszka.

Camerimage was also accompanied this year by the exhibition organised by Goethe Institute and called Fritz Lang, Film Images that took place in the Museum of Film. In the ATLAS SZTUKI Gallery Tadeusz Piechura presented his last works called Plakat+.






This year the programme of the Festival was very attractive. Nevertheless, the descriptions given above are not presenting all the events that took place during our event. There are a few more that are worth to be mentioned:

On Sunday, November 28th there was a placing of the commemorative Star for Zygmunt Samosiuk at Piotrkowska Street followed by the screening of one of his movies called The Birch Wood directed by Andrzej Wajda.

On Wednesday, December 1st, ARRI GB and British Society of Cinematographers organised an informal meeting of all cinematographers visited the Festival to discuss the future of their role in the film business.

On Thursday, December 2nd KODAK organised an annual KODAK STUDENTS PARTY and on Friday, December 3rd, following Camerimage tradition KODAK invited over 150 guests to take part in their Special Dinner for Cinematographers.

Everyday our guests, students and volunteers had a chance to meet, dance and sing in the Festival Pub called EVERGREEN. Coma, Mikrowafle, Hedone, Sistars, Adam Nowak Band and I Stadt were playing there.






The twelve edition of Camerimage Festival was closed during the Closing Ceremony on Saturday, December 4th. It was the biggest Festival so far and we had enormous pleasure to host real starts of cinematography, acting and directing. We also hosted much more guests than during the previous editions.

During CAMERIMAGE the following Award were granted: